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BOX FASTENBR. No. 349,077. Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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UNIT D STATES CHARLES \V. BEEHLEB, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ()NE'HALF TO VILLIAM II. LONERGAN, OF SAME PLACE.

BOX-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,077, dated September 1%, 1585.

Application filed July 2d, 1886. Serial No. 209,163. (No model.)

T (LZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that LGHARLEs W. BEEHLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Fastencrs; and I do hereby declare the i'ollowingtobea full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the same, reference being had to the accoinpanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure Us a perspective view of the fasted or proper detached; Fig. 2, a perspective view of one end of an egg-box, showing the end cleats slotted to receive the fastener, with the fastener in its iinengaged position; Fig. 3, a detail perspective view of the cover-cleat detached; Fig. at, a similar view of the boxcleat; Fig. 5, a detail end view of the egg box, with the fastener in place and in a locked position; Fi 6, alongitudinal section of the same at line 6 6, Fig. 5; and Fig. 7, a horizontal section of the same atline 7 7, Fig. 5.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

This invention relates to that class of fasteners employed at the ends of egg and other cases to secure the cover in place without other means of fastening; and the present improvement has for its object to supply a fastening device cheap and effective in construction, easy of application, and capable of quick and easy manipulation to release or secure the cover.

. To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to more fully describe its construction and mode of operation.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the box end, B the cover, 0 the covercleat, and D the boX-cleat.

The fastener proper consists of a rectangular staple,'E, which is driven into the covercleat 0, its straight lower bar, e,being clasped by the pivot-eyesf of the inverted-T or anchor shaped fastener-piece F, to form a pivotjoint for the same.

The fastener-piece or anchor F is made of wire bent to the shape shown, with its vertical members f set so as to spring away from each other, as indicated in Fig. l, the purpose being to cause the same to bind in the slots formed for its reception in the cleats O and D, and hold the fastener in any position to which it is set either opcnedor closed. The upper or cover clcat, G, is cutaway at c a sufficient distance to admit of the pivot-eycsfbe 5 ing arranged above the lower edge of said cleat to prevent inarring or bending of the fasten ing by the usual handling of the cover in general use, while the lower or box clcat, D, is provided with a narrow vertical slot, (1, to receive the vertical member f of the fastener F, and form an abutment for the horizontal member f of such fastener, as clearly indicated in Fig. 5.

I am aware that prior to my invention boxfasteners have been formed of a spring-loop of wire, and adapted to engage around and under a knob or projection formed by slits or grooves in the boX-cleat to form a lock, and also that such form of fastener has been piv- 7o oted in the upper cleat and adapted to engage a similarly-formed projection or knob; but I am not aware of the prior use of an inverted- T oranchor shaped loop of wire pivoted to the upper eleat and adapted to form a lock by engaging in a single vertical slit or groove in the lower box cleat.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A box-fastener consisting of a staple, E, secured to the cover-cleat, and an inverted-T or anchor shaped fastener-piece, F, of wire, pivoted thereto, and adapted to engage in a vertical slot in the box-cleat D, and by means 8 5 of its horizontal member 1" form a lock, essentially as set forth.

2. A box-fastener consisting of a staple, E, secured to the cover-cleat, and an inverted-T or anchor shaped fastener-piccaF, of wire, 0 pivoted at its upper end to the staple E, in combination with the cover and box cleats G D, provided with vertical coincident slotsc d, as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. A box-fastener consisting of a staple, E, of rectangular shape, secured to the covereleat, and an inverted-T or anchor shaped In testimony whereof witness my hand this lasbener-pieee, F, of Wire, pivoted thereto, 21st day of July, 1886, at Chicago, Illinois. with its vertical members f adapted to spring away from each other, in combination with CHARLES \l'. BEEIILEH. 5 the bot-cleats C and D, provided with narrow slots 0 and d, the parts being arranged and In presence ofadapied to operate in the manner and for the Ronnn'r Bnnxs,

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